Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-03-07
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Photography reveals stars that To RI,
human eve are not distinguishable from
nebulouS matter.
The replacement of a diseased nvp n,
the healthy eve of an animal has nov
been done five times, with one success
says the Medical Record. In the fou,
cases. the cornea sloughed. in two. how
ever, firm vascular adhesions took nlace
Professor Alexander, of Honolulu re
| Gently discovered an extinct crater neal
the leper settlement of MolOkai. He triec
to sound the crater, but a line $500 feet
long failed to touch any bottom All the
other craterS of extinct volcanoes in the
Sandwich Islands have been measured.
AS an example of the strength of one
kind of fibre, a recent work on the sub.
| iect states that the best fibres of New
| Zealand fax are equal in strength to q
piece of the best wrought-irOn of the
| same diameter. These strengthening f.
bres are placed in the plant just where
| they can be of the best service i'm sus-
| tanning and resisting strain
One of the most common weeds in
all southern and western Texas is the
trompillo, (S0lanum -eledgpifoIiuBl)
| whose black berries, when ripe, have the
remarkable property of curdling milk.
though they disclose no acid reaction.
The Mexicans crush the fruit, put it into
a muslin bag, and submerge this in a pan
of milk until coagulatiOn has taken place
Professor A. Togel has observed that
plants do not always contain their charac-
teristic alkaloids when grown under 9TH
er than natural conditions. Hemlock
does not yield cOnine in Scotland, and
cinchona-plants are nearly free from qui-
nine when grown in hot houses. Tannin
is found in the greatest quantity in trees
which have had a full supply of sunlight.
Few persons have an idea of the enOr-
nous consumption of Irvine in this coun-
try. One of the greatest demands for the
article comes from the farmers, who con-
sumo thirty-tive thousand tons annually
upon the self-binding harvesters. Allow
ing five pounds to the mile, this would be
equal to a string long enough to go more
than six times around the earth. 1t takes
a length of about three feet of Irvine to
tie a bundle of straw. The farmer sits
on his machine, drives alone through the
grain field, and without any assistance,
cuts, bundles, and ties twelve acres of
wheat grain per day.
1t is a popularity of trees to try to
grow around and envelope with their bark
any object against which they may grow.
A nail or coin, if driven a little way into
a tree, is i'll a year or two completely COW
cred up; and sawyers often lind such CD
jects in logs while cutting them into
planks. A few years ago while cutting
down an old apple tree which stood on
the boundary of a city house lot, we
found fence post directly in the center
of the trunk, i'll perfect preservation. The
tree, when a young sapling, had evidently
been set close to the post, and had grown
around it until it was too late to remove
it without destroying the tree.
There is now being exhibited at Leipsic
an apparatus for putting criminals to
death by electricity. In this apparatus,
behind the chair in which the condemned
man is to take his seat, and by means OF
which, his body is placed in circuit with
a powerful coil-there stands a CONVEX
tional figure of Justice with bandaged
eyes, holding the balance in her left hand |
and the sword in her right. The Grim |
inal having taken his seat, the proper |
is supposed to read over tie |
record of his crimes and the sentence of |
the law. This ceremony completed, he |
folds up the document and places it in the |
scale pan, the arm of the balance de |
Every one knows that the sea has larg |
er animals than can be found on land but, |
with the enormous Sequoias of California |
in mind, many may be surprised to learn |
of vegetable growths in the ocean vastly |
exceeding i'll length, though not in bulk, |
these giants of the forest. Recently the |
ship, Clever commanded by Capt. John |
Stone arrived at Montevideo with a por-
ton of a seaweed which had been picked |
up in the Atlantic near the equator. The |
sailors perceived an object floating on the |
surface some distance from the ship, and /
boat they rowed to it, and as
certained that it was an alga of enormous |
size. On measuring it, it was found to |
have a length upward of fifteen hundred |
feet